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Hello everyone. I'm very sorry I've been absent for awhile. I hope you're doing well.
I hope you don’t mind I want to post a little diary instead of art work this time. Recently, I visited Chinatown Storytelling Centre in Vancouver. I hope that I can do more to support them as well. If anyone is nearby please check out the exhibition.
I’m very happy I found Anita Mui photo book album that was published from 1987 by chance in the old magazine store hidden in the area.
There were a lot of things happened for the past few months. I‘ve started tattooing as my alternate work to support my personal projects and living besides working on illustrations. Due to a personal situation beyond my control, I will no longer be at my previous studio. Unfortunately, I was made to not feel safe in my previous workplace and experienced microaggressions time after time including harassment and homophobia. It has been one of the most difficult and painful time for me. I decided to move to the another studio which is a wonderful place that is diverse and supportive of LGBTQ and BIPOC. I've also created a new profile that I can be myself and do the style that I've always wanted to do. I will dedicate this account to tattoo work specially Instagram @ windflowerink I really appreciate your support and understanding. Thank you for being who you are and being here for me. I’ll continue to do my best to draw and share illustration to support our community. I hope you will look forward to them as well. Please take care.
Kitsilano beach, Vancouver BC.
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Breaking Asian stereotypes is great. But we need to talk about the repercussions. In high school I deliberately became more loud & assertive because I was sick of being cast aside as just another ‘quiet, nerdy Asian’. And that got me a lot of hate. I was othered, even more so than before. So I was silent again because it was easier than having a target on my back. Easier than being seen as a threat. I’ll find my voice again one day, but later. Much later.
#filipino#philippines#Asian American#model minority myth#racial stereotyping#Asian stereotype#racism#aapi representation#aapi community#asian heritage#ethnic minorities
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Any immigrants in Western countries ever struggle over whether to change your legal name because:
My romanised non-English name is a jumbled mess to pronounce
I barely even use it anyway because I have an ‘English name’ that I’ve been using for years
But the documentation and process of name changing is a bitch and I’m pretty sure my dad will jump my bones if I erase my ‘original’ name.
#I like my cultural name! it’s just not the most practical thing#and no one except my family calls me that#immigrant experience#Asian heritage#asian culture#personal#ramblings
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May is Asian Heritage Month
Join us in your School Library as we celebrate Asian Heritage Month in May. Canada is a country filled with people who have backgrounds and heritage from all over the globe, including the vast landmass we call Asia. Canada has a long history of immigrants coming from such places as China, India, Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam and the many other nations of Asia, including places in the west of…
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#Asian Heritage#Asian-Canadians#Canada#Canadians#Central Asia#East Asia#South Asia#Southeast Asia#western Asia
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Maysia 2: new year
#maysia#maysia2023#maysia 2023#artph#aapi#aapi heritage month#aapi month#asian american pacific islander heritage month#filipino#filipino american#asian#asian american#digital art#art#my art#artists on tumblr#procreate#drawing#illustration
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[STUDIO] KIÊU - TỈNH LUNG ft TỈNH ĐỊCH
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Song: Kiêu
Singer: Tỉnh Lung ft Tỉnh Địch
Dancer: Yun Qi Dance Studio
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Friendly reminder that the al Ghuls are East Asian. Yes they are Arabic, but they are also East Asian. Several origin stories had put Ra's birthplace in East Asia.
Don't let DC just kill that because of the shitty "we don't need multiple East Asian characters in the family" idea media has.
So yeah start letting Damian speak Chinese, Mongolian, Burmese, and/or other languages that are associate with lands that were associated with the Mongolian Empire (which Ra's has repeatedly claimed to have been prominent in)
Talia's sometimes portrayed as over a hundred years old. Let her wear Cheongsam and Fengguan's when she marries Bruce.
#Damian Wayne#Talia al Ghul#Batfam#Batman#League of Assassins#“The al ghuls have some East Asian heritage” is arcane knowledge in batfandom
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culture tips for writing asian settings: tea varieTEAs
atla's got major Tea Guy representation in iroh but let's be real, even non-tea guys are going to be drinking tea in an asian-inspired setting—you'd be served it instead of water most places. so, what kind of tea are you picking for them?
as an east asian reader, it can take me out of the setting to see the characters drink something like chamomile (from europe/west asia) or... most herbal teas, to be honest. ngl it was weird to see iroh in the show, characterised as a huuuuuuge tea snob, drink stuff like jasmine (it's fine it's just basic, is all! imo!) or like.... a random flower he encounters in the wild.
when we're talking tea, real asian tea, we're talking about the leaf of the camellia sinensis plant. the huge variety we have of tea is actually from the different ways of processing that exact same leaf. popular varieties include:
green: the leaf goes through minimal processing, can have a bright and even leafy/grassy flavour (examples: gunpowder, longjing aka dragon well, matcha, genmaicha)
white: also undergoes minimal processing, with a lighter flavour than even green (examples: silver needle, shou mei)
oolong: the leaf is semi-oxidised, curled, and twisted—can be characterised by a tanniny flavour with a bright aftertaste. my personal favourite! (examples: da hong pao, tieguanyin, dong ding, alishan)
dark (black): note this isn't the same as black tea as we think of it in english. the leaf is fermented to produce an earthy tea with a flavour like petrichor (examples: pu'er)
all the teas listed in the "examples" are fairly credible teas that i think a real tea snob like iroh would drink.
ok, but what about...
"black tea" as we know it in the west—assam and ceylon etc? this variety is actually called "red tea" in chinese. we don't drink it with milk but to be honest, i've just... never really heard of anyone drinking chinese red tea? which is why i've kept it off the list. (there's lapsang souchong, but i associate that with bri'ish people...) anyone who does drink it, let me know! on the other hand something like assam/ceylon, while extremely delicious and also asian, is a product of british colonialism and is consumed with milk. i think if you wanted to massage some of the traditions & have chai-drinking indian-influenced characters, though, that's cool!
do you actually not drink herbal tea? we do... but a lot of it is considered medicinal. we've got stuff like herbal "cooling tea" with ingredients like sour plum, mesona, or crysanthemum; tea that warms you up like ginseng or ginger. the whole concept of hot/cold in chinese medicine though... that deserves another culture post
camellia leaf murdered my family & i have a grudge against it; what else can my blorbos drink? there'a some good, tasty stuff made of wheat, barley, buckwheat, even soybean. wouldn't be egregious for the characters to drink that!
is milk sacriligeous? a real tea snob would think so, but a lot of asians nowadays are chill about milk in tea—usually in western-influenced red tea. hong kong, thailand, india, taiwan, and malaysia (among others) have their own cultures of milk tea, which has even become a democratic rallying point.
what do you think of iroh inventing bubble tea? my main issue with it is it's anachronistic! it was invented in taiwan in the late 20th century, but atla's set in the equivalent of the mid-19th century... you could also make arguments about whether iroh's too snobby about tea to invent it LOL
there's soooo much more i can say about all this so: keep your eyes peeled! i'll talk about medicine & tea ceremony in the near future <3
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#atla#atla culture#atla meta#avatar the last airbender#iroh#asian culture tips#tea#so i'm making this post as not QUITE a certified Tea SnobTM the way iroh is#but i do really love and enjoy many east asian teas#and i start every day off with a cup of strong milk tea (probably reflecting my own cultural heritage tho ;) )#and i do look down on white ppl tisanes. that shit aint good!!
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Could the Ace Attorney fandom stop pretending that Phoenix Wright or Miles Edgeworth or any of the main cast is white? Idgaf if the localized version is set in America. Asian Americans exist. You are consuming a piece of Asian-made media, not everything is about white people
#I need y’all to stop thinking of white people as the default setting#The amount of people in this fandom that whitewashes Edgeworth is insane#Surprise Asians can wear clothes outside our native cultures#Asian characters shouldn’t have to act explicitly or stereotypically Asian for you to acknowledge their heritage#This applies to other pieces of media too#Asian characters can exist in a modern setting they can exist in a Western setting#Please get rid of your orientalist lens because we are literally just people#Ace attorney#miles edgeworth#phoenix wright#literally so done with how this fandom of an Asian game treats Asians
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Happy Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month!
#aapiheritagemonth#aapi representation#Asian American Pacific Islander heritage month#asiansincinema#represenation matters#dailycolorfulgifs#asian representation#stop asian hate#atlaedit#disneyedit#everything everywhere all at once#userleila#ivashkovadrian#asian athletes#my graphics#happy aapi heritage month yall!
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AANHPI Heritage Month ‧₊˚❀
Asian American ‧ Native Hawaiian ‧ Pacific Islander
In the month of May we take time to reflect and celebrate the important role that Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (AANHPIs) have played in the United States.
Real talk? For millions of us living here, every month is our "heritage month." However, May is just when we make everyone else celebrate -- or at least pretend to care.
So go forth and heritage it up, in any way you see fit. Connect with your ancestors. Educate yourself on our shared history. Support your favorite AANHPI business or discover a new one.
Let's all have a good month.
#ffxiv screenshots#ffxiv gpose#gposers#duskwight#elezen#AANHPI#AAPI#aanhpi heritage month#aapi heritage month#asian coded OCs#played by an angry salty Asian#yein my beloved#friday night thoughts#wanted to do something special to commemorate
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I NEED TO SEE MORE ASIAN LESBIANS AND SAPPHICS. ITS AAPI HISTORY & HERITAGE MONTH. PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THINGS HOLY AND SACRILEGIOUS COME OUT OF WHATEVER HOLES YOURE HIDING IN 😭 esp our elders whom aren’t ever really represented - i wanna see you all !!
yes this includes west, south, se asians, and pacific islanders! <3
#❛k talks❜#sapphic#butch#butch lesbian#baby butch#lesbian#queer#lgbt#lgbtq#butch4femme#femme4butch#femme4femme#butch4butch#butch4all#femme4all#aapi#aapi heritage month#asian#wlw#nblw#dykeposting#butch dyke#dyke#dyke positivity
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Staff Pick of the Week
My staff pick this week is the trade edition of The Tale of the Shining Princess by Japanese-born writer Hisako Matsubara (b.1935) and Japanese-Canadian artist-printmaker Naoko Matsubara (b.1937), published by Kodansha International LTD. Tokyo, Japan in 1966.
As a artist-printmaker and bookmaker who makes woodcuts, I am greatly inspired by Naoko’s prints. Naoko Matsubara’s work carries on traditions of Japanese printmaking while having its own contemporary flavor. Her woodcuts are ecstatic, they are vibrating with movement. Her use of bold shapes and the white line of the the carving tool makes the most of what woodcut has to offer. In the book form, the active images carry the reader’s eyes through the book space. Her use of negative space activates the page. Additionally, her woodcuts have translated beautifully to commercial printing.
The Matsubara sisters are daughters of a senior Shinto priest, and were raised in Kyoto. Both studied, lived, and worked in the United States. Hisako received her Master of Arts degree from Pennsylvania State College, moving to Germany where she continued her studies and became a prominent writer, publishing her work in Japanese, English, and German. In the 1980s she moved back to the United States, this time to California where she worked at Stanford University.
Naoko received her Master of Fine Arts from Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, now Carnegie Mellon University. After her studies she traveled across Europe and Asia. She returned to the United States and became the personal assistant to the artist and wood engraver Fritz Eichenberg, an artist who has been featured many times on our blog. Naoko taught at Pratt University in New York and at the University of Rohde Island. She also lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts for a time. Naoko is currently living and working in Canada in Oakville, Ontario, where she continues to work and exhibit nationally.
The work of both Hisako and Naoko have had great influence inside the United States and around the world. So lets celebrate their accomplishments!
This book has end sheets of mulberry paper with inclusions of Bamboo leaves, the cover is a red textured paper with a gold stamped design by Naoko.
View some of our other AAPI selections for this month.
View our other Staff Picks.
- Teddy, Special Collections Graduate Intern
#staff pick of the week#The Tale of The Shining Princess#hisako matsubara#naoko matsubara#Japanese artists#Japanese writers#Japan#AAPI Hertitage Month#Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month#AAPI#canadian artists#trade edition#Matsubara#woodcuts#printmaking#color printmaking#fiction#stories#teddy
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Asian Heritage Month: Virtual Museum
Check out the Virtual Museum of Asian Canadian Cultural Heritage
May is Asian Heritage Month in Canada. Visit your School Library to find out more.
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Maysia 1: OOTD/what’s in my bag
Hello everybody look at all this stuff I got❗️
#maysia#maysia2023#maysia 2023#artph#aapi#aapi heritage month#aapi month#asian american pacific islander heritage month#filipino#filipino american#asian#asian american#digital art#procreate#art#my art#artists on tumblr#drawing#illustration
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happy aapi heritage month, loving and friendly reminders
stop erasing pacific islanders or i'll rip out ur spine
asians outnumber pacific islanders by millions and more often than not this month gives CRUMBS to pacific islanders and it's honestly, transparently anti-indigenous at this point.
pacific islanders are melanesian, micronesian, and polynesian. these identities are not homogenous or interchangeable, but are deeply historically connected.
filipinos are not pacific islander and we are not discussing this further
(i am not pacific islander so if anyone from that community wants to add more friendly reminders onto this post, pls do 💛)
east asians are not the only asians
despite being the face of "asian-ness" in the us, there are actually more countries in asia than south korea, north korea, japan, and china.
celebrate southeast asians !
celebrate south asians !
celebrate west asians !
celebrate central asians !
celebrate north asians !
there is so so much diversity in the pacific islander and asian experiences worldwide, and it's well past time we celebrate all of the facets of our identities
celebrate indigenous asians !
celebrate asians who aren't mixed with white !
celebrate dark-skinned asians !
end the diaspora wars !
we need to stand together in community as we face down the capitalist, imperialist, white supremacist machine. uplift each other, and hold each other accountable, always
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